Monthly Archives: April 2012

Both the Research Commons and Study Commons now have a walkie talkie for contacting the on duty IT staff. The IT staff assigned for any given shift will carry a walkie talkie, so they can be contacted when not immediately available in the help desk area or reachable by phone. In the Research Commons,...

The microform reader for fiche and film has been set up on the 3rd floor across from the service desk. Patrons can read these media and make a pdf file to save to a usb/thumb drive. Then they can take the file to a lab for printing or take home to read on their...

We have noticed problems with patrons printing color documents from Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) on the PCs. They get a black and white print rather than color. Patrons should be directed to use the “Color PostScript” print queue for printing color documents from the PCs workstation. A sign has been placed on the...

We now have 25 new PC laptops available for checkout from the Research Commons. All checkout laptops (MacBook, NetBook, PC Laptop) now have Blank & White WiFi printer. Print job must be released from the “WiFi Printer” release station.

WiFi printing (B&W only) is now available for library checkout MacBooks and Netbooks. The PCs don’t have WiFi printing yet, but we hope to have this feature soon. For black & white WiFi printing from the MacBooks and Netbooks the print job must be release from the “WiFi Print” release station.

This Saturday, four people from HMC Architects (the firm that worked on the Library) will be photographing throughout the day, taking both interior and exterior photographs of the building. Gina Castro, Librarian in the Research Commons will give them photo release forms that the photographers will ask people to fill out if they take...

It’s basic, but everything’s new and it isn’t on our website/in the catalog yet… Main Collection books are the ones that are on open stacks on the 3rd & 4th floors. Call numbers A-L are on the 4th floor, M-Z is on 3.